Police launch investigation into cyber attacks from Serbia

Government domains have been under attack for a week, allegedly coming from Serbia.

The E-mail system was attacked last week, the e-mails of state officials and the addresses of diplomatic officials. For all these cases, Kosovo Police have initiated investigation cases. So at least they've told Gazeta Express about these disturbing cases.

Last week, it was the site of Kosovo Republic of Kosovo Speaker Kadri Wessel, who was attacked. Through a video published on Twitter, Wessel's account, it became known that a group of Serbian hackers, entitled “to Serbia Hackers Kim”, had flocked to the front page.

The following day, Kosovo institutions were hit by a powerful cyber attack coming from Serbia. The E-mail system was under attack as a whole, and for this the Express newspaper had secured the Kosovo Government's announcement sent to Kosovo embassies to report on these attacks.

In their context, the e-mails of state officials were also hit

Express has asked Kosovo police to know what is being taken to prevent or identify attacks from where they are coming from.

And police said they have already initiated case investigations concerning cyber attacks directed to the government domain.

For your announcement, the competent sector near the Kosovo Police has initiated cases of investigation regarding the cyberattack that has occurred to the government domain”, the KPC's response to the Express says.

The Kosovo government had announced to all institutions last week that they had a massive attack coming from Serbia, Bosnia and Macedonia.

But, although police investigation has already been launched, there is fear that attacks on other Kosovo electronic services could increase.

For these attacks, the Kosovo Ministry of Internal Affairs had also reacted, which had also called an emergency meeting of the State Cyber Security Council.

Through MPB's announcement, it became known that they have not infected any electronic systems of Kosovo institutions, and no official electronic addresses.

This ministry, however, said the Council has taken appropriate measures and has announced institutions concerning steps to take to protect itself against such attacks.

Significantly, in the last three years in Kosovo alone, 116 such cases have been reported.

The cases involve access to computer systems, misuse of bank and credit cards, and child pornography via the Internet. For all these works, police have put 41 people in handcuffs, while criminal rowing has been filed against 74 others.